Years ago, coal miners took canaries down into the coal mines with them, because canaries are more sensitive to the poisonous coal gasses than human beings are. When a bird started acting sick, the miners beat a hasty retreat.

Today, those of us with chemical sensitivities often think of ourselves as canaries  not only because were more sensitive to chemicals than other people, but also because we know that if chemicals keep getting into peoples bodies as they do now, then many more besides us will suffer.

This site is for supporting my fellow canaries, and for informing all you temporarily able-bodied folks of the growing danger to you, too.

In addition, this is a record of my investigations into what is wrong with me, an ongoing research project. The Web is a revolutionary resource for people with poorly-understood medical conditions. Here I am working to ...

collect leads about how my body is malfunctioning

preferably from sites with documentation

linking to sites without documentation if the information is interesting and I can't find documentation

build a coherent concept of mechanisms.

strategize methods of treatment.

If you have knowledge about the factors I'm studying which you would like to share,
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A Canary's-Eye View is necessarily inexpert, incomplete, and tentative. Portions in [brackets] are comments to myself on directions to pursue. This research has already yielded some avenues of treatment that have helped  for me. What you see here is not medical advice.